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Iran Issues Stark Warning to Gulf Allies of US: Choose Security or Complicity

The president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, has issued a blunt message to Gulf countries hosting American and Israeli military operations, warning them that their own peace and progress are...

IEA Chief Fatih Birol Urges Nations Not to Treat Iran Energy Crisis as Someone Else’s Problem

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, has urged world leaders not to treat the global...

Netanyahu’s Political Strength at Home Gives Him Room to Defy Washington’s Preferences

One of the underappreciated factors in the US-Israel strategic divergence is the domestic political dimension. Israeli Prime Minister...

Iran’s Retaliation Threat Exposes Fragility of Gulf Energy Security After South Pars Strike

The fragility of Gulf energy security was laid bare on Wednesday when Iran threatened to strike refineries and...

Trump Scorches NATO Allies, Claims Iran Military Has Been ‘Decimated’

President Donald Trump delivered a scathing assessment of NATO on Tuesday, accusing the alliance's members of abandoning the...

Iran’s IRGC, Parliament, and Military Back New Supreme Leader in Unified Show

Iran's most powerful institutions closed ranks behind newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei within hours of his formal announcement on Sunday, presenting a coordinated...

Starmer’s Iran Dilemma: Balancing Labour’s Doubts Against US Demands

For the British prime minister, the Iran conflict presented a dilemma that had no clean solution. On one side was a powerful ally demanding...

Ukraine’s Drone War Lessons Could Protect the Entire Middle East

The lessons Ukraine learned while defending against relentless drone attacks are now being packaged into a defense cooperation offer for the Middle East. President...

Khamenei’s Nuclear Legacy Now in Question as Iran Faces Leadership Void

For more than two decades, a single religious edict stood as Iran's formal commitment against developing nuclear weapons. That edict belonged to Ayatollah Ali...

Nuclear Red Line: Trump Says Iran Faces Consequences If Weapons Program Continues

President Trump set out a clear red line on Iran during his State of the Union Address, warning that Tehran faces serious consequences if...

Iran-US Talks: IAEA Verification at the Heart of Delicate Nuclear Negotiations

As Iran and the United States continued indirect nuclear talks in Geneva, one issue emerged as perhaps the most technically and politically complex: the...